GASTROPODA | LEPETELLIDAE |
Shells minute, limpet-shaped, with an apex more or less anteriorly placed; surface concentrically microstriated. |
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Bogia Dantart & Luque, 1994:« Shell cap-shaped, oval, thin. Apex between 80 and 95% of length, base strongly arched and convex, sculpture of concentric growth lines only. Protoconch with long and narrow apical fold and fused tip; sculpture of about 12 longitudinal cords and minute punctae near lip. Radula and anatomy unknown. » – Dantart & Luque: “Cocculiniformia and Lepetidae (Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda) from Iberian waters”, Journal of Molluscan Studies vol. 60(3), London 1994, p.300. The genus is monotypic. |
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Lepetella Forbes & Hanley, 1849:Shells with an irregular outline adapted to the terrain on which the animal lives. |
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